Chinese are
very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the
money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United
States or Australia.
They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will
learn a musical instrument or ballet or other classes which will give them a
head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education
is, the better it is. So the parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money
on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However,
what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give
their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can
see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in
others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack
(缺乏) self-respect and
self-confidence.
The problem
is that parents are only educating their children on how to take
multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents aren’t teaching them
the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can
achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing
housework.
Teaching a
child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life.
Cooking demands patience and time. It’s an enjoyable but difficult experiment.
A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard
and gradually to finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner,
will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.
Some old machines , such as a broken radio
or TV set that you give your children to play with will make him curious (好奇) and arouse his interest
He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might
become an engineer when he grows up. These activities aren’t merely teaching a
child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more
important.
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虽然你回答的也不错、但我选的最佳答案翻得更好(关键是更短。。)谢谢你、这样吧 我还有好多翻译要提问呢(这次暑假有30篇报纸翻译T T)等我一提问然后通知你回答我把分给你行不
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